Monday, December 08, 2008

2000AD cover sketches

When Tharg the Mighty asked me recently to do a cover for 2000AD featuring a zombie character (not giving anything away!) I found myself doing something I hadn't done before, that being drawing one of the undead professionally. You'd think, after almost twenty years (on and off) in the comic book industry I'd have got around to drawing bloomin zombies by now! Well, no. This is a first for me.

I haven't had as much time on this as I'd like, due to my other commitments, but it was fun to play around with. I wanted to do a companion piece to my recent Dredd cover so lucky for me the colour sketch above was approved by the galactic green editor supreme, it being my first attempt at the design. It's nice when the first idea you have fits what your boss is thinking of.The image below is a sneak peek composit of the finished cover.

Yeah, a very nice cover, your zombie doesn't look typical anyway it's really cool, especially the idea of holes in the head (it looks like zombies have no brain :) ) maybe just not enough details are in this picture like for a cover picture.

And I must admit I'm really impressed how you coloured that picture using only photoshop. GJ.

About Me

As a comic book artist I've worked for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Soleil Productions, Pointe Noire, Punto Zero and Rebellion (2000AD).
As a concept artist I've worked for Rage, Sony and Warner Brothers.
I'm best known for my work on Batman especially the New York Times best seller graphic novel Batman: Death by Design.
I'm presently working on Judge Dredd for 2000AD, a TV and movie project and an issue of Image comics Prophet with Brandon Graham.
I also play drums!